Maja Stark puts her belief in 1 word. It won her US Women’s Open

Erin, Wisconsin – Maja Stark confuses her friends.

A day ago, she became philosophical. How will she fight the obvious nerves in Sunday’s U.S. Women’s Open Finals, where she will start with two strokes? pass pride. And how you make yourself Proud? Stark proposes that this is by sticking to your daily activities and sticking to your own swing mind, which controls everything you can control. Something deep. Only one day later, when asked in time, two of her closest confidants were a little tired.

“I don’t know what that means,” Ingrid Lindblad said of pride.

Linn Grant said, “Oh, I don’t know what she would think that was.”

On Sunday afternoon, everyone knows what this is equal – Stark is your latest U.S. champion, who beat Nelly Korda and Rio Takeda twice in her 72 rounds of the game. Afterwards, she said she was a woman of a woman. Maybe you found it, too. Her pride was as rich as the spotted beef beer here for the entire nine and a half hours.

At 3:27 pm local time, Stark’s lead narrowed to one. At 3:38, There Stick to the idea of ​​swaying. There It’s pride. While reading a birdie putt, she made a bowling move with her hands, a move that seemed to mimic the behavior of the ball looking towards the hole. For her, Putting has been a mistake lately. She said her coach, Joe Hallett, said she tends to peek into the hole early. At 3:41, she made a short fist.

3:54: At the age of 11, she turned three years ahead with three birdies and Korda Bogey. Greenside ranking tells the score. Please seize this idea.

4:13: There Persist in routine. There It’s pride. On the right side of the T-shirt box on Rod 3, 13, some ice cubes rattle in the nearby cooler. Playing partner Julia Lopez Ramirez is frightened. Stark is cool. Iron to green. At 4:22 pm, you can hear the TV drone buzzing overhead. in spite of. Stark Parred. In front, Corda birdies, Stark leads with two more.

4:31: This is very smart. Six days ago, one-time Solheim Cup teammate Gemma Dryburgh talked about the beauty of the 14th hole on the 5th. In the second shot, you can shoot in the right of the mound about 100 yards lower from the green to reduce the yardage – but the best angle to go into the green is really just with a longer left option. Stark is a longer batsman, heading to the right. She birds. Previous three.

4:45: This is very interesting. Jim “Bones” Mackay, a longtime caddie who now performs a course analysis on the radio, walks over and asks Stark if he has seen any rankings. It seems she didn’t-McKay stared at her, checking if she read the 14th green left. She didn’t.

4:49: People noticed it. On the left of the 15th fairway, volunteers who had drawn driving yards earlier this week had returned and he noticed Stark’s attitude. indestructible. 70 a Thursday. 69 a Friday. 70 a Saturday. Nothing hot. Nothing cold. Goldilocks golf. But for Stark, her play is surprising – she said that entering the week, she has little confidence and more swing ideas since winning the LPGA for the first time in 20022. “During practice,” she said. “I realized that if I was hovering over the club above the ground before hitting it, I would release some tension in my body. I think it would be nice to do my process, know, having a little thing like this week is the key because I really don’t want to do that – I really don’t want to rely on my confidence to rely on my confidence.”

4:56: The reporter slid down the hill. No one saw it. 5:07: Correspondent is obliged to have a young man who wants to be five higher along the rope. His days were spent.

5:09: Seventeen, test rod 4. At least for the volunteers, things seemed to be over, and who asked another volunteer: “Can we leave now?” Not yet! Stark’s T-shirt shot sailed left, forcing only the second shot. Return to the general. Stark hit 22 feet, two harsh and bogeys, while Korda booed 18 feet while the separation was still three points.

5:37 – 5:48: Wait. Poor Lopez-Ramirez. Stark was three-thirds later, her match partner struggled around the green and ended up winning eight of the three-tide eight. Apart from that, details will be preserved: Stark listens to her caddie, Jeff Brighton, tells the joke. Care about sharing, Maya? “I don’t remember now. He would love a few holes, I would make a joke or a story, which is great because it makes me focus on what he is saying, not how I feel and what I feel. I don’t know now.” Uh. Jeff, what did you say? “It’s so bad. I mean, I’m just in the waffle. As long as you try to keep their heads away from looking, oh my goodness. I’d say Maja is a very intense player. You know, she works very hard. She works really hard. She’s really competitive.

5:53: Bogey was made from 13 inches away in the three holes on the 72nd hole. This is conventional. This is Last time proud. Before putting, she wiped the putter’s face, Los Angeles like Brooks Koepka, who won the U.S. Open Championship eight years ago. Stark was also a winner at the time.

Afterwards, she became the only Swedish champion in the Open with the pride of joining Annika Sorenstam and Liselotte Neumann. After the picture program, Sorenstam faced her at the age of 18. The 25-year-old Stark is a champion on the LPGA track and has won six titles on the Women’s European Tour. But the open crown brings you to superstars, or at least into some new Digs and phone plans to upgrade. Stark said she also didn’t know the $2.4 million she awarded to the winner, though she said she might move out of her studio apartment and be able to call home. During the celebration on the 18th, her parents wanted to call her, but Stark refused, saying that it was too much.